Thermo Aquatuner

Thermo Aquatuner cools the liquid piped through it and absorbs the Heat itself.

If the environment around the Thermo Aquatuner can not absorb its heat, it will quickly overheat. Due to its high heat output it is recommended to submerge it in a liquid, as gasses cannot exchange temperatures with it fast enough when the machine is working full time.

Use of Steel
Due to the massive amounts of heat that this device can take away and invest into itself, the choices of materials for this device is very limited if Overheating is to be avoided. The most reliably sourced material is Steel.

Use of Thermo Sensor
A Thermo Sensor is also very much recommended - indeed, required - for efficient use and control of this device. Setting the sensor close or next to the Aquatuner is wise; this can give a measure of both the temperature of the Aquatuner and the fluids that it is immersed in. If the Aquatuner is made of Steel or Thermium, the heat transfer will be fast enough to reliably control the temperature of the Aquatuner and the fluids that are soaking heat from it.

Mechanics
The Thermo Aquatuner (as well as the Thermo Regulator) works by taking heat from anything piped into it and applying that heat to itself, and does not produce its own heat. As this is heat-neutral, cooling it with its own output will cause it to maintain its temperature, assuming no other heat sources or sinks are present.

The amount of heat moved depends on the type and amount of liquid piped in. Each packet of liquid has 14 °C removed from it, regardless of the Specific Heat Capacity (SHC) of the fluid or the amount. It is therefore best to use liquids with a high SHC (Water, Polluted Water, Super Coolant) and to ensure all packets sent in are 10 kg (it consumes 1.2 kJ per packet, not per 10 kg), in order to make the most of the 1.2 kW power requirement.

The Aquatuner does not respect freezing temperatures of liquids, and will damage the output pipe if liquids are cooled below their freezing temperature.

The Aquatuner is the only building capable of reliably producing liquid oxygen and hydrogen, as it has no minimum output temperature. The Thermo Regulator also does not have a minimum temperature, but there is no suitable gas to use for cooling hydrogen. Formula for Self Heating °C/s for Steel: mass of Aquatuner (1,200,000 g) x Specific Heat Capacity of Steel (.49) = 588,000 DTU required to change 1 °C/s. Heating: (ex water 585,060) / 588,000 = .995 °C/s.

Any liquid can be used, but these are most common as they have desirable properties; Super Coolant has the largest heat capacity.

Note: There is a lower temperature limit of -270.15 °C (3 K). Super Coolant is the only liquid capable of reaching such a temperature without freezing. However, the Thermo Aquatuner will continue to operate, consuming 1200 W and generating heat in the process.

Caution on the Use of Thermium and Super Coolant
Both high-end manufactured materials vastly increases the Aquatuner's ability and efficiency at exchanging heat - but also vastly changes the amounts of heat involved. Using these materials require more careful control of not just the temperatures of the Aquatuner and the fluids that it is immersed in, but also what the fluids and Aquatuner is drawing heat from. It is very easy to excessively cool a region without this additional care.